Force Computers' SENTINEL Technology Wins "Best of Show" Award At CT Expo Spring 2000; PCI-to-PCI Bridge Offers Universal Mode Single Board Computer Solution.Business Editors, Technology Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2000 Force Computers, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Solectron Corporation's technology solutions business unit (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SLR (1) (Scalable Linear Recording) A line of magnetic tape drives from Tandberg Data that evolved from the QIC Data Cartridge format. See QIC. (2) (Single Lens Reflex) A camera that uses the same lens for viewing and shooting. ) and a leader in embedded computing, today announced that SENTINEL(TM), the company's single chip PCI-to-PCI bridge (PPB) has received the "Best of Show" award from the CT Expo Spring 2000 show recently held in Los Angeles, California. Richard Grigonis called SENTINEL "the latest and most exciting bridging technology in the CompactPCI(r) realm" in a recent issue of Computer Telephony magazine. "Once again, Force has demonstrated its leadership in CompactPCI technology with the SENTINEL PPB. This Universal PCI-to-PCI bridge chip offers more performance and enhanced features for multiprocessing to Force Computers' CompactPCI product line," said Torsten Ballentin, director of strategic marketing for Force Computers. As a single chip PCI-to-PCI interface, SENTINEL enables a universal mode single board computer solution, MSI (message signaled interrupt) for advanced interrupt support, and hardware support for Intelligent I/O (I20) communication. SENTINEL is optimized for CompactPCI Hot-Swap and asymmetrical multiprocessing applications. SENTINEL Availability SENTINEL is only available on Force products. The universal mode single board computer solution, MSI (message signaled interrupts Message Signaled Interrupts, in PCI 2.2 and later and PCI Express, is an alternate form of interrupt from the traditional pin-signalled system; instead of asserting a given IRQ pin, a message is written to a segment of system memory. ) for advanced interrupt support, and support for I2O hardware features are available on the PowerCore(tm) CPCI-680. Future releases of Force Computers' Intel(r) and SPARC(r)-based boards will include SENTINEL. About Force Computers Force Computers (www.forcecomputers.com) was founded in 1981 and is a leading designer and worldwide supplier of standard and custom systems and board-level computer platforms and services for the embedded market. The processor-independent company helps its customers develop embedded applications based on Alpha, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , Pentium(r), PowerPC(tm), PowerQUICC(tm), SPARC(r), StrongARM, and 68K(tm) technologies, for embedded UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (r), Linux(tm), Windows NT(r) and real-time applications. Force supports VME, CompactPCI(r), PCI, PCI/ISA, and PMC bus architectures as well as custom form factors. An ISO 9001 certified company, Force Computers practices Total Quality Management principles in all phases of the company's global operations. The company, along with its parent company, Solectron Corporation, is the 1997 winner of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is given by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. Through the actions of the National Productivity Advisory Committee chaired by Jack Grayson, it was established by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality for Manufacturing. Force's corporate headquarters and Asia Pacific headquarters is located in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . Force's European headquarters is located in Munich, Germany. All brands are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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